•Ankur Gupta•Lokesh Garg•Prateek Singhal •Sarthak Khandelwal •Vinay Suthar

THOMAS HARDY

Mayor of CasterbridgeWritten in 1886. Revolves around the fictional town called Casterbridge. Its pure imagination of writer.

David Thacker

Novel adapted to TV-Series in 2003.He has directed over 100 theatre productions including Shakespeare and Arthur.  

CAST

Micheal Henchard

Susan

farfrae

Elizabeth Jane

Lucetta

PLOT

HENCHARD AS A SINSTER

Henchard gets drunk, and in an auction that begins as a joke but turns serious, he sells his wife and their baby daughter to Mr. Newson.

RE-AWAKING

Swears an oath that he will not drink alcohol for twenty-one years

SUSAN SEARCHES FOR HENCHARD

Susan and Elizabeth-Jane seeks for Henchard.Elizabeth-Jane believes he is merely a long-lost relative.

SUSAN MEETS HENCHARD

The parents meet and decide that in order to prevent Elizabeth-Jane from learning of their disgrace

HENCHARD HIRES FARFRAE AS MANAGER

Henchard has hired Donald Farfrae, a young Scotchman, as the new manager of his corn business. 

JANE AND FARFRAE

Elizabeth-Jane is intrigued by Farfrae, and the two begin to spend time together.

HENCHARD DISMISSES BY FARFRAE

He asks Farfrae to leave his business and to stop courting Elizabeth-Jane.

SUSAN FALLS ILL AND DIES

Susan falls ill and dies soon after her remarriage to Henchard. After discovering that Elizabeth-Jane is not his own daughter, but Newson’s, Henchard becomes increasingly cold toward her. 

LUCETTA ARRIVES

•Lucetta arrives with motive to mary Henchard.•Offers Jane to live with her and she leaves Henchard’s house.

LUCETTA MEETS FARFRAE

Lucetta meets Farfrae, who has come to call on Elizabeth-Jane

HENCHARD’S DOWNFALL

•Fermity woman exposed Henchard character.•He was removed from Mayor’s position.

SKIMMITY RIDE

The peasants decide to hold a “skimmity-ride,” a humiliating parade portraying Lucetta and Henchard together. 

NEWSON ARRIVES

Henchard tells him that she is dead, and Newson leaves in sorrow. 

HENCHARD LEAVES

Henchard learns that Newson has returned to town, and he decides to leave rather than risk another confrontation. 

JANE AND FARFRAE MARRIES

Newson and Farfrae start planning the wedding between Jane and Farfare.

JANE SNUBS FATHER

•Henchard comes back to Casterbridge on the night of the wedding to see Elizabeth-Jane, but she snubs him.• She soon regrets her coldness, and she and Farfrae, go looking for Henchard to make peace between them

HENCHARD DIES

They discovered that he has died alone in the countryside.

CHARACTER PLOT

HENCHARD

•Man of Character

•Impulsive

•Depicts mood swings

•A man ironically whose name deserves to be remembered.

DONALD FARFRAE

•Man of intellect

•Model man of science

•Charismatic personality

ELIZABETH JANE

•Kind, simple, and uneducated girl. 

•She lacks Lucetta’s sense of drama.

•Lacks her stepfather’s desire to bend the will of others to her own.

LUCETTA

•Lives recklessly according to her passions and suffers for it. 

•Proceeds to love whomever she wants however she pleases. 

•Lacks the boldness and certainty of purpose

THEME

The theme of The Mayor of Casterbridge appears to be the arbitrary and almost always malign workings of the universe and blind chance upon the destinies of men. Such evil, unrelenting machinations bring pain and suffering upon the characters in the novel, and there is no escape except in a day-to-day acceptance of life.

THE VALUE OF A GOOD NAME

The importance of a solid reputation and character is rather obvious given Henchard’s situation. More crucial, Henchard’s actions result in the loss of his name and his reputation as a worthy and honorable citizen.

THE INDELIBILITY OF THE PAST

The Mayor of Casterbridge is a novel haunted by the past. Henchard’s fateful decision to sell his wife and child at Weydon-Priors continues to shape his life eighteen years later, while the town itself rests upon its former incarnation.

COINCIDENCE

The Mayor of Casterbridge reveals a structural pattern that relies heavily on coincidence.Coincidence seems less like a product of poor plot structure than an inevitable consequence of malicious universal forces.

THE TENSION BETWEEN PUBLIC LIFE AND PRIVATE LIFE

Henchard’s fall can be understood in terms of a movement from the public arena into the private one.  He moves from “the commercial to the romantic,” concentrating his energies on his personal and domestic relationships with Farfrae, Lucetta, and Elizabeth-Jane.

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